On 05/16/2014 09:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote:
[...]
> Another comment on the above and the Mozilla User Agent comment: I
> am sure that much of the software in the Wheezy distro is not 64 bit
> software ( Mozilla included) and usually co-exists nicely with the 64
> bit system.
How do you get that impression? You can definitely install a Debian
System including Iceweasel and Icedove with amd64 _only_. My user agent
is likely to be "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101
Icedove/24.5.0" or such. Just to make sure:
~$ aptitude show icedove
Package: icedove
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 24.5.0-1~deb7u1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Christoph Goehre <chris@sigxcpu.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 57.1 M
Depends: [...]
Recommends: myspell-en-us | hunspell-dictionary | myspell-dictionary
Suggests: fonts-lyx, libgssapi-krb5-2, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0)
Conflicts: icedove
[...]
=> An amd64 version exists in standard Debian
> Nice idea about using the VirtualBox:amd64 program but no joy. The
> program requires a 64 bit version of a Python library that is not
> included in the distro. Somebody needs to correct this.
It must be included, because I have installed it using Debian sources
only (also cf. https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/python2.7/download):
~$ aptitude show virtualbox
Package: virtualbox
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Maintainer: Debian Virtualbox Team
<pkg-virtualbox-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 45.8 M
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6), libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1),
libgsoap2, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpython2.7 (>= 2.7),
libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11),
libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libvncserver0,
libx11-6, libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxmu6,
libxt6, zlib1g (>=
1:1.1.4), python (>= 2.6.6-7~), python (< 2.8), python2.7, adduser
PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
Recommends: virtualbox-dkms (= 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3) | virtualbox-source
(= 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3), virtualbox-qt (= 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3),
libgl1-mesa-glx |
libgl1, libqt4-opengl (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.5.3),
libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3)
Suggests: virtualbox-guest-additions-iso, vde2
[...]
~$ aptitude show python2.7
Package: python2.7
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 2.7.3-6+deb7u2
Priority: standard
Section: python
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 9,053 k
Depends: python2.7-minimal (= 2.7.3-6+deb7u2), mime-support, libbz2-1.0,
libc6 (>= 2.11), libdb5.1, libexpat1 (>= 2.1~beta3), libgcc1 (>=
1:4.1.1), libncursesw5
(>= 5.6+20070908), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libsqlite3-0 (>=
3.5.9), libtinfo5
Suggests: python2.7-doc, binutils
Conflicts: python-profiler (<= 2.7.1-2), python-profiler (<= 2.7.1-2),
python2.7
[...]
> Any ideas will be sincerely appreciated. I really need to get this
> problem solved.
As others already suggested, you are likely to use a mixed AMD64 + i386
system which confuses the automatic installation of Virtualbox' kernel
modules.
You could start by comparing your sources.list and architecture using
$ apt-cache policy
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 file:/data/programs/repo/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
release v=6.0.6,o=Linux-Fan,
Ma_Sys.ma,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Ma_Sys.ma MDVL Repository,c=main
500 file:/data/programs/repo/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages
release v=6.0.6,o=Linux-Fan,
Ma_Sys.ma,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Ma_Sys.ma MDVL Repository,c=main
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/non-free Translation-en
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/main Translation-en
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/contrib Translation-en
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/non-free i386 Packages
release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=non-free
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/contrib i386 Packages
release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=contrib
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/main i386 Packages
release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/non-free amd64 Packages
release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=non-free
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/contrib amd64 Packages
release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=contrib
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/main amd64 Packages
release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/non-free Translation-en
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main Translation-en
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/contrib Translation-en
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/non-free i386 Packages
release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free
origin security.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/contrib i386 Packages
release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib
origin security.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages
release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=main
origin security.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages
release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free
origin security.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/contrib amd64 Packages
release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib
origin security.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=main
origin security.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/non-free Translation-en
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main Translation-en
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/contrib Translation-en
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages
release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=non-free
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/contrib i386 Packages
release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=contrib
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages
release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=non-free
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages
release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=contrib
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.de.debian.org
Pinned packages:
$ dpkg --print-architecture
amd64
with some expected standard output like mine (except for the MDVL-stuff
of course).
Hope that helps more than my previous answer
Linux-Fan
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